low fps in all the games

[DaniilGDG]

so i got a pretty good pc and every game works with low fps
GIGABYTE GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
Amd Radeon r9 280x
amd phentom x4 955
borderlands 2 works with low fps
and i just changed my gpu so maybe the cpu something happned to it?

 

[morgilroka]

It looks like the x4 955 is bottlenecking your GPU. I would recommend you first of all, confirm you're on the newest drivers for your 280x... And if that isn't resolving it, look into upgrading to something like a FX6300(atleast) or an i5

 

[DaniilGDG]

i have newest drivers i think changing to a x6 1090t cause i dont have money for a new mobo and cpu
will the 1090t bottleneck or not?

 

[morgilroka]

The 1090t is definetley an upgrade over the 955.. But i think to get full performance with that 280x, you're going to need to overclock the 1090t quite a bit, as stock speeds may still hold the 280x back 🙁

 

[emdea22]

R7/R9 use more cpu power for drivers in DX11 than counterpart nvidia cards - thats why they created Mantle
The 1090t will actually be slower because in almost all DX11 games all the drawcalls are being forced to 1 core. So the trick is to have fast per/core performance. This means you should either change the platform to install a new cpu with a faster architecture OR overclock your current CPU.

 

[DaniilGDG]

by how much should i oc it?? with the amd overdrive

 

[emdea22]

CPU overclocking is done in bios, any other software overclocking method is used to determine the maximum overclocking potential without restarting the computer multiple times.

your CPU is a black edition you can overclock it by raising the multiplier HOWEVER since thats not a great motherboard for overclocking i suggest overclocking on stock voltage + 1bump ( if stock voltage is 1.350 then go to 1.375 max alternatively if its 1.375 don't go past 1.4v). After you set the voltage, raise the CPU multiplier untill windows is unstable then take it back a notch or two untill you can run at least an hour of prime95 on all cores using small ffts

 

[DaniilGDG]

ok ty

 

[Mouldread]

It looks like the x4 955 is bottlenecking your GPU. I would recommend you first of all, confirm you're on the newest drivers for your 280x... And if that isn't resolving it, look into upgrading to something like a FX6300(atleast) or an i5

I had 955 BE until a few months ago with a GTX 770 and despite it being an old CPU I never had problems playing most games on highest settings. Borderlands in particular was playing at about 90 FPS.

A new CPU will improve the performance but the reason of his low FPS is most probably badly installed drivers.

 

[Mouldread]

The 1090t is definetley an upgrade over the 955.. But i think to get full performance with that 280x, you're going to need to overclock the 1090t quite a bit, as stock speeds may still hold the 280x back 🙁

Actually 1090t is not at all an upgrade, or maybe in only a couple of games. I'm not sure why are you giving such advise.

 

[Mouldread]

so i got a pretty good pc and every game works with low fps
GIGABYTE GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
Amd Radeon r9 280x
amd phentom x4 955
borderlands 2 works with low fps
and i just changed my gpu so maybe the cpu something happned to it?

Hey,

download and install http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html and then use it to remove all your GPU drivers. Then download the latest drivers from AMD's website and install them.

 

[Rationale]

It looks like the x4 955 is bottlenecking your GPU. I would recommend you first of all, confirm you're on the newest drivers for your 280x... And if that isn't resolving it, look into upgrading to something like a FX6300(atleast) or an i5

I had 955 BE until a few months ago with a GTX 770 and despite it being an old CPU I never had problems playing most games on highest settings. Borderlands in particular was playing at about 90 FPS.

A new CPU will improve the performance but the reason of his low FPS is most probably badly installed drivers.

My Phenom II 955 at stock clocks averaged 30 fps in Borderlands 2, and switching to an i3-4360 bumped it to 65+ fps (now GPU limited by my 750 Ti).

If you were getting 90 fps in Borderlands 2, you probably had the Phenom II 955 heavily overclocked.

 

[Mouldread]

Nope, only at 3.6 GHz. When I get home I'll try to find my logs and post them.

 

[Rationale]

Sorry, I won't believe you either way. According to this, a Phenom II 980 is only capable of an average of 50 fps in Borderlands 2.
http://www.techspot.com/review/577-borderlands-2-performance/page6.html

 

[Mouldread]

You'll make me install Borderlands 2 just for the test sake (no I don't have my CPU anymore) so I can at least test it with my new CPU, because from what you linked it would look like even i7s have problems with it...

 

[Rationale]

You'll make me install Borderlands 2 just for the test sake (no I don't have my CPU anymore) so I can at least test it with my new CPU, because from what you linked it would look like even i7s have problems with it...

You likely had PhysX on your GTX 770, which the OP has to run through his CPU. Chances are that benchmark also ran PhysX through the CPU, since they also benchmarked AMD cards in the same review, and would have needed to make sure each video card was only running the same effects.

 

[Mouldread]

It could be many things, my point was the game can run pretty well with the CPU and GPU the OP has with a few tweaks and the low performance he is getting is probably due to old GPU drivers interfering with new GPU drivers if they haven't been removed properly or at all.

 

[Rationale]

It could be many things, my point was the game can run pretty well with the CPU and GPU the OP has with a few tweaks and the low performance he is getting is probably due to old GPU drivers interfering with new GPU drivers if they haven't been removed properly or at all.

...I don't think you understand how badly PhysX runs on CPUs.

 

[Mouldread]

I do, because I've tried it in Metro Last light with my old HD 6950 + 955BE 😛

I just automatically presume (probably shouldn't) that people who play games on their PCs do what I always do after installing a new game - go to settings and adjust according to my hardware. You can't just click on ULTRA and hope it all goes well only because some "sales assistant" in the big PC chain near you told you that you are buying a "gaming PC that runs all on max". You should take stuff like this with a grain (or shall I say a bag) of salt.

That's why I love PC gaming so much - all the options and tweaks you can do with your games' options.

 

[Rationale]

I do, because I've tried it in Metro Last light with my old HD 6950 + 955BE 😛

I just automatically presume (probably shouldn't) that people who play games on their PCs do what I always do after installing a new game - go to settings and adjust according to my hardware. You can't just click on ULTRA and hope it all goes well only because some "sales assistant" in the big PC chain near you told you that you are buying a "gaming PC that runs all on max". You should take stuff like this with a grain (or shall I say a bag) of salt.

That's why I love PC gaming so much - all the options and tweaks you can do with your games' options.

Borderlands 2 uses PhysX much more heavily than Metro Last Light, just so you're aware. On my Phenom II 955 at stock, Last Light held higher framerates than Borderlands 2 with both at preset ultra, aside from AA [back when I was testing PhysX through my CPU, since I suspected a GPU bottleneck at the time, it's a long-ish story].

 

[DaniilGDG]

i decided to upgrade my mobo Gigabyte 990XA-UD and then buy FX-6300
ty for the help